NASCAR 75: One of a series of 75 stories that helped define the first three quarters of a century of NASCAR.
The biggest bootlegger in Atlanta, if not Southeast, and always flush with cash, team owner Raymond Parks, pictured above left, liked winning.
There would never be another driver, mechanic and car owner trio quite like Red Byron, Red Vogt and Raymond Parks, the three men who combined to win NASCAR’s first Strictly Stock championship in 1949. At his two-car garage on Spring St. in Atlanta, Vogt had been building cars for bootleggers on one side and for Revenuers on the other since the 1930s. “The bootlegger cars were always faster,” he said, “because there were so many regulations you had to follow on the government cars.”
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